DANGEROUS & FOOLISH
SENDING MATCHES BY POST. OFFENDERS LIABLE TO HEAVY PENALTY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Postmaster-General (Mr Webb) stated today that the inclusion of matches in parcels sent through the post, both inland and overseas, was causing the Department considerable concern. If the practice continued, he said, it would be necessary to take much sterner measures against offenders than had been adopted in the past. The posting of matches was an offence under the Post and Telegraph Act and the penalty was imprisonment or a heavy fine, or both. The Minister added that experience had shown that a parcel containing matches, even safety ones, was a danger to the whole mail. He instanced a case of a parcel containing matches igniting while it was being sorted at a base post office in the Middle East.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1943, Page 4
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138DANGEROUS & FOOLISH Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1943, Page 4
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